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Volume 9, Numbers 1 and 2

This issue features papers presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Philippine Economic Society and the Third National Convention...

Volume 12, Number 1

This issue presents a comprehensive analysis of small farm mechanization in the Philippines, based on findings from a...

Volume 13, Numbers 1 and 2

This issue presents a collection of studies, including one from the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis...

Volume 17, Number 1

This issue presents a set of studies examining key economic sectors and policy frameworks in the Philippines. One...

Volume 22, Number 2

This issue delves into critical aspects of economic cooperation, trade liberalization, and policy coordination within the Asia-Pacific Economic...

Volume 23, Number 1

This issue examines key challenges and opportunities within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) framework, focusing on trade liberalization,...

Volume 26, Number 2

This issue presents a comprehensive examination of watershed management, conservation efforts, and environmental policy in the Philippines. It...

Volume 28, Number 1

This issue explores key economic and policy challenges in the Philippines, ranging from biotechnology’s role in agriculture to...

Volume 29, Number 1

This issue explores the intersection of economic growth, environmental sustainability, and decentralized governance, with a focus on the...

Volume 29, Number 2

This issue examines critical economic and policy challenges shaping the country\'s growth and governance. It features an analysis...

Volume 30, Number 2

This issue presents critical discussions on key economic and policy challenges facing the Philippines. It examines the establishment of an...

Volume 32, Number 2

This issue features studies on household savings, fiscal decentralization, the informal economy, and e-governance, offering insights into key...

Volume 35, Number 1

This issue presents research on trade liberalization, economic vulnerability, aquaculture, and macroeconomic policy, offering valuable insights into their...

Volume 37, Number 1

This issue explores critical economic and policy challenges shaping agriculture, trade, environment, and development in the Philippines and...

Volume 38, Numbers 1–2 (Special Volume on International Labor Migration)

Countries in the ASEAN region experience a wide range of problems in managing labor migration flows. There is...

Volume 39, Numbers 1–2 (Special Volume on ASEAN Economic Community)

This special volume of the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is devoted to discussions and analyses of issues...

Volume 40, Numbers 1–2 (Special Volume on Health)

The Aquino Health Agenda of 2010 articulates succinctly the Philippine health sector's aim for universal health coverage. The agenda has...

Volume 48, Number 2

This closing issue of the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD)’s 50th anniversary features a retrospective article by Jan Carlo Punongbayan...

Volume 21, Numbers 1 and 2

This issue presents analyses on sociology, economic policies, gender studies, and sustainable development, offering insights into the evolving landscape of...

Volume 33, Numbers 1 and 2

This special issue of the Philippine Journal of Development honors Professor Alejandro N. Herrin for his extensive contributions to research...

Philippine Economic Setting in a Turbulent World Economy

Sector Sources of Philippine Postwar Economic Growth: The Over-all Record in Comparative Perspective

This paper looks at the Philippine postwar growth within a comparative framework, utilizing the record and experience of ASEAN countries...

The 1979 Diary Family Income and Expenditure Survey: Experience and Preliminary Results

This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics on December 13-14, 1982. The 1979 Diary Family income...

Foreign Investments in Philippine Agriculture

This article measures the amount of foreign participation, direct and indirecin Philippine agriculture. However, due to insufficient time and inadequate...

A Review of Past, Present and Proposed Mechanization Strategies in the Philippines

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

The Effects of Small Farm Mechanization on Employment and Output in Selected Rice-Growing Areas in Nueva Ecija, Philippines

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the "Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Changes in Harvesting-Threshing Arrangements and Landless Laborers

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Comparative Evaluation of Tractor and Carabao Use in Rice Land Preparation, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, 1980

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

The Private and Social Profitability of Mechanical Threshing

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

The Impact of Mechanization on Agricultural Production in Selected Villages of Nueva Ecija

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Effects of Agricultural Mechanization on Farm Income Patterns

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

A History of Credit Programs Supporting Agricultural Mechanization in the Philippines

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

MA-IRRI Industrial Extension Program for Small Farm Equipment

This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the “Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in...

Infrastructure, Output Supply and Input Demand in Philippine Agriculture: Provisional Estimates

This article has been presented at the Workshop on Methods for Agricultural Policy Analysis held at the UP Los Baños...

The Private Costs of Commercial Forestry, Reforestation and Social Forestry

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It analyzes the private perspective of upland...

Infant and Childhood Mortality Research in the Philippines: Review and Agenda

This article advocates for more focused research designs and the use of more complex causal models. Investigations of morbidity and...

The Legal Framework for Science and Technology Development

This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST...

Science and Technology Development and Promotion in the Private Sector: Some Issues and Recommendations for Policy Research

This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST...

Health Policy Research and Development in the Philippines

In the hope to contribute to the exchange of ideas and experience regarding health research, this paper provides an overview...

Fuzzy Subset Theory in the Measurement of Poverty

What has not been explored in the traditional measures of poverty is the extensive set of categorical variables that indicate...

Policy Researchers and Policymakers: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

The 1980s have seen the heavy emphasis on economic policymaking. As such, equal emphasis has also been bestowed to the...

Old Images and New Challenges: Rethinking the Mission of Agricultural Support Systems in Asia

To speak of rethinking the mission of the agricultural support system is no easy task. It has already played crucial...

Social Science Research on Reproductive Health in the Philippines

The accelerated increase in the world population has resulted in poverty, with women and children bearing the greatest burden. Hence,...

Beyond Socioeconomic Status: Some Implications for Planned Health Intervention Among the Poor

This paper discusses the insights derived and the lessons learned from two research studies that have been recently conducted among...

Rural Development Reconsidered: Some Emerging Niches for Population Studies

This paper attempts to identify a number of emerging population-relevant rural scenarios that require a more creative degree of understanding...

Achieving Effective Trade liberalization in APEC: The Trade Limitations of “Open Regionalism”

Until there is a substantial degree of consensus over the strategic issues and a greater body of work on the...

Assessment of Watershed Technologies

Dealing with various topics such as watershed classification, computer simulation and modeling and computer application in watershed research, this paper...

Ownership and Property Rights Issues in Watershed Resource Management

Well-defined property rights recognize the ownership of material and abstract things. The low enforcement of property rights for a certain...

Constraints to Food Security: The Philippine Case

Over the past two decades, the Philippine economic growth has been erratic and lower than most developing countries in Asia....

R&D Gaps in the Philippines

Based on the chain of causality, R&D translates to innovation and to productivity/ technological progress, which ultimately leads to economic...

Agricultural Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges for the Philippines

Developing countries, still heavily dependent on agriculture, must now harness biotechnology to modernize agricultural production and diversify product outputs. The...

A Bioeconomic Rationale for the Expansion of Tree Planting by Upland Philippine Farmers

Upland farmers have long been cast as key actors of deforestation, but in the wake of timber scarcity brought on...

How Do Research Projects Influence the Design of Local Policies for Environmental and Natural Resource Management?

This paper documents and analyzes interactions between environmental and natural resource (ENR) management research and local governance. It draws from...

The Role of PIDS and Its Contribution to Research and Policymaking in the Philippines

Established in 1977, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has been an important research resource in the country. It...

Regulatory Policies and Reforms in the Power and Downstream Oil Industries

This paper looks at the regulatory reforms in the electricity and downstream oil industries, two important inputs to the production...

PJD 2006 Special Volume in Honor of Alejandro N. Herrin - Introduction

This special issue of the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is dedicated to Professor Alejandro N. Herrin in recognition of...

A Better Start in Life: Evaluation Results from an Early Childhood Development Program

Informed by a growing body of research showing that investments in early childhood health, nutrition, and cognitive and psychosocial development...

Development and the Upland Resource Base: Economic and Policy Context, and Lessons from a Philippine Watershed

Economic growth and environmental damage are associated, but the relationship is neither linear nor even monotonic. The nature of the...

The Globalization of Food Security: Rice Policy Reforms in the Philippines

This paper describes the forces that have come to bear on the shaping of food security policy in the Philippines...

Philippine Development: A Research Journey Through the Philippine Journal of Development

After 27 years of existence, the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) is considered one of the longest running journals in...

The Philippine Journal of Development: Its Beginning and Evolution

This paper traces the beginning and evolution of the Philippine Journal of Development--from its conception as a technical journal of...

Communicating and Using Seasonal Climate Forecasts: a Challenge Crossing National, Organizational, and Disciplinary Boundaries

The papers in this special issue come from the project "Bridging the gap between seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) and agricultural...

Managing the ASEAN Economic Integration Process in the Philippines: An Assessment of Progress in Trade Liberalization and Facilitation

This paper is part of the Philippine study for the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint,...

The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint: Implementation and Effectiveness Assessment for Philippine Agriculture

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint outlines the plan of countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to...

Domestic Resource Cost in Philippine Agriculture: Measuring Global Competitiveness of Key Commodities

A well-known indicator of comparative advantage is domestic resource cost (DRC). This study provides updated estimates of DRC for major...

Health Accounts Estimates of the Philippines for CY 2012 Based on the 2011 System of Health Accounts

The System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 is the current international standard for health accounting. An expanded health accounts was...

The Fertilizer Industry and Philippine Agriculture: Policies, Problems, and Priorities

The fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the 1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has...

Disentangling the Effects of Maternal Employment on Child Stunting in the Philippines

This study analyzes the effects of maternal employment, along with mother’s education, civil status, and wealth, and the child’s age,...

Making Sense of the Seal of Good Local Governance: Policy Design Layering and Implications for Shaping Local Government Performance

The Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) is pivotal in assessing Philippine local governance. However, concerns over its...

The Philippine Journal of Development in the Early 21st Century (2002–2023)

As the Philippine Journal of Development (PJD) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024, this paper reviews all articles...